Africa: Key Actors Commit to Smart Nutrition, Ensuring Faster Progress to Ending Malnutrition
[allAfrica] Johannesburg — In the world, 1 in 9 people are hungry or undernourished, and 1 in 3 adults are overweight or obese. ...
Africa: Humanitarian Needs Grow in Tigray Region
[ICRC] The ICRC’s head of operations in Ethiopia, Jeremy England, spoke to UK parliamentarians today about the humanitarian situation in northern Ethiopia. In ...
Africa: Why Some Africans Are Wary of the Covid-19 Vaccine
[DW] A few African countries have begun vaccinating their people against the coronavirus. Despite campaigns and assurances that the vaccines are safe, some ...
Africa: Govts Put on High Alert as Fake Covid-19 Vaccines Emerge
[Nation] Governments across the world — including Kenya — have been put on high alert following the unearthing of fake Covid-19 vaccines in ...
Africa: Covid Restrictions Chipping Away At Civil Liberties
[DW] The COVID-19 pandemic has provided African autocrats with the perfect set of circumstances to restrict civil liberties, rights activists say. China’s growing ...
Africa: Continent Can Learn Maritime Lessons From Its Small Island States
[ISS] On 24 January, the French frigate Nivôse seized 444 kg of methamphetamines and heroin worth more than ?40 million from a dhow ...
Africa: Somali, AU Military Chiefs Visit Troops to Plan Joint Operations
[Shabelle] Senior African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Somali National Army (SNA) military chiefs visited the Ugandan troops in the southern region ...
Africa: Africa ‘Not On Track to Reach 2030 HIV/Aids Targets’
[SciDev.Net] Nairobi — The likelihood of African countries reaching HIV testing and condom use targets by 2030 is only 12.1 per cent and ...
Africa: Put Vision Into Global Health Focus, Experts Urge
[SciDev.Net] Vision, quality of life, the economy and development are all so interconnected that eye health should be reframed as a mainstream part ...
Africa: Gender Bias Stymies Women’s Careers in Stem – UN
[SciDev.Net] Sydney — While women play a critical role in science and technology, women career scientists still face gender bias, accounting for only ...
